Fish mistaking plastic debris in ocean for food, by confusing plastic for an edible substance because microplastics in the oceans pick up a covering of biological material, such as algae, that mimics the smell of food, according to new study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

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Fish mistaking plastic debris in ocean for food, by confusing plastic for an edible substance because microplastics in the oceans pick up a covering of biological material, such as algae, that mimics the smell of food, according to new study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.